Rev. Danny Fisher

This via our friends at Shambhala Sun Space:  Buddhist poet D.H. Maitreyabandhu has been awarded the Keats-Shelley Prize.  The award, given annually for “the best poem on a Romantic theme,” has never gone to an explicitly Buddhist poet before.

This year’s prize asked for poems on the theme of “find”. Maitreyabandhu’s, “The Small Boy and the Mouse”, sees a boy look inside himself to see an egg, within which lies a garden where a mouse sits holding a picture of a boy. Chair of judges Professor Janet Todd called it “a wonderful evocation of the nature of childhood” which “questions the power of imagination”.

Read the poem and the rest of the story here.